Sovetskaya Ukraina battleship
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 Sovetsky Soyuz class battleship layout. |
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| Class Overview | |
| Class type: | Battleship |
| Class name: | Sovetsky Soyuz |
| Preceded by: | None (first Soviet battleship class to build) |
| Succeeded by: | None |
| Ships of the line: | Sovetsky Soyuz, [[Sovetskaya Ukraina Sovetskaya Ukraina]], Sovetskaya Rossiya, Sovetskaya Belorussiya (all not completed) |
| General Characteristics (Sovetsky Soyuz as frozen in 1940) |
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| Displacement: | 59,150 tonnes standard 65,150 tonnes full load |
| Length: | 269.4 m |
| Beam: | 38.9 m |
| Draft: | 10.4 m |
| Speed: | 28 knots (51.8 km/h) nominal 29 knots (53.8 km/h) top |
| Complement: | 66 officers, 1226 ratings |
| Range: | 5,580 miles (10,000 km) @ 14 knots (25.9 km/h) |
| Power: | 201,000 hp (150 MW) nominal 231,000 hp (172 MW) top 6 triangle type boilers |
| Drive: | 3 screws; 3*67,000 hp Brown Boveri geared turbines |
| Fuel: | N/A |
| Armor | Belt: 375-420 mm, Bulkheads: 230-365 mm, Barbettes: 425 mm, Turrets: 495 mm, Decks: 100-150 mm |
| Armament: |
Main guns: 3x3*406 mm/50 |
| Aircraft: | 4 Beriev KOR-1 seaplanes; 1 catapult |
| Other equipment: | N/A |
The Sovetskaya Ukraina (Soviet Ukraine) was laid down in 1938 in Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) at the Black Sea. When German troops captured Nikolaev on August 18, 1941, the ship was completed up to the main deck. It was only slightly damaged by the retreating Soviet troops. As all of the ships plans were missing, it was not planned to continue the construction of the ship, instead some of the armor and secondary artillery was used for the fortification of Sevastopol. In 1943, the construction was continued with a low priority and when the Germans were forced out of Nikolaev in March of 1944, they destroyed the incomplete ship by explosives.
